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Selden (J.) Table-Talk [edited by R. Milward], first ed., unbound, orig. sewing, uncut, London, printed for E. Smith, 1689, sm. 4to. (571), May 25, Sotheby Maggs, £40 Selden (J.) Titles of Honour, first ed., hf. mor., r.e., W. Stansby for J. Helme, 1614, sm. 4to. (96), May 18, Sotheby [See also Mar. 2, ed. 1672, £22.] Tregaskis, £2 5s. Selden (J.) Opera Omnia, ed. D. Wilkins, port. by Vertue, 3 vol., old cf. gt. (rebacked), 1726, (739), July 15, Hodgson Sweet, I IIS.

Selden Society's Publications, Vol. 1 to 39, buckram, uncut, 1887-1922 (550), July 15, Hodgson J. Grant, £28 Selenus (Gust.) Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiæ libri IX., engravings and woodcut diagrams, with music, old black mor. (rebacked), g.e., Heber copy, Lunæburgi, 1624, folio (672), Mar. 30, Sotheby Pickering, £25 Selkirk (Thomas Douglas, Earl of). Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, second ed., piece torn from corner of title affecting the first word, hf. cf., Edin., 1806-[Halkett (J.)] Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River in North America, map (torn), hf. cf. (binding defective), 1817, 8vo. (173), May 18, Sotheby Maggs, £8 Seller (John). The English Pilot, the Third Book, maps (slightly cropped), old boards, 1675, folio (610), Dec. 15, Sotheby H. Stevens, £2 Semple (Miss). Costume of the Netherlands, 30 col. plates, hf. cf. (binding worn), 1817, 4to. (460), Jan. 28, Hodgson Solomons, £2 Senarclæus (Claudius). Historia vera de morte sancti uiri Ioannis Diazii. cum præfatione D. Martini Buceri (a-y, a-n 4 in eights), n 3 misbound before n 2, red leather, inside dentelles, g.e, fine copy, No place or printer, 1546 8vo. (720), Mar. 17, Sotheby Quaritch, £5

[Juan Diaz, the Spanish reformer, was murdered by his half brother.] Senault (L.) Heures Nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture écrites et gravées par L. Senault, vignette initials and other decorations, engraved throughout, contemp. French red mor., back tooled au pointillé, g.e., Paris, chez l'Auteur, n.d., 8vo. (1020), Dec. 8, Sotheby Swettenham, £2 5s.

[See also Lot 1021, £2 10s.] Seneca (Lucius Annæus). Opera prosaica varia, manuscript on vellum, 12th cent., written in gothic characters on 109 Il., 2 columns, 34 lines to a page, title and chapter headings in red, numerous initials in red, blue and green, inscription in the hand of the scribe in margins of fol. 49-50 "Liber Sancte Marie Ignaci," stamp on title "Ex libris Friderici Schennis," and inscription "Ex bibliotheca C. R. Jardel. Bran. suess., old mottled cf., gt. back, size 11in. by 8in. (214), July 27, Sotheby Tregaskis, £114 Seneca (L. A.) Sherburne (Edward). Medea, a Tragedie, written in Latine by Lucius Annæus Seneca, Englished

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by E. S., Esq., with Annotations-Seneca's Answer to
Lucilius, his Quære-Why Good Men suffer misfortune
seeing there is a Divine Providence? written originally
in Latin prose, and now translated into English verse by
E. S., Esq., 3 parts in I vol., full green mor., gt. line
borders on sides, gt. back, inside gt. borders, g.e., by The
Club Bindery, London, printed for Humphrey Moseley,
1648, sm. 8vo. (656), May 7, American Art Association
[Fine copy of the first edition.]

Seneca (L. A.) Thysestes, a Tragedy

$34

to which is added, Mock-Thyestes, in burlesque, by J.[ohn] W.[right] Gent., stained, margin of title repaired, wanting last leaf, probably a blank, cf. (from the Rhodes sale, Lot 2647), London, printed by T. R. and N. T. for Allen Banks, 1674, sm. 8vo. (558), Mar. 23, Sotheby Maggs, £2 10S. Seneca (L. A.) Tragoediæ, roman letter, 150 l., woodcut initials, small hole in last leaf affecting a numeral, boards [Hain *14670, Proctor *5452], Venice, J. Tacuinus, 1498, folio (653), June 22, Sotheby Suckling, £4 15S.

[See also Dec. 8, ed. 1661, £2 15s.; Dec. 8, ed. 1678, £2

2s.] Seneca (L. A.) Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, translated into Englysh and edited by T. Newton, first collected ed., pictorial border, black letter, with variations, woodcut initials, contemp. cf., sprinkled edges, some 11. uncut at foot, Imprinted at London in Fleetstreete neere vnto Saincte Dunstan's church by Thomas Marsh, 1581, sm. 4to. (378), Dec. 8, Anderson Galleries

$100

[See also American Art Association, May 7, $107.50.] Seneca (L. A.) Natvralivm Qvestionvm Libri VII. Matthæi Fortunati in eosdem libros annotationes. Index rerum notatu dignarum in calce operis appositus, green cf., gt. tooled (wants 2 preliminary 11.), Venetiis, in ædibus Aldi et Andreæ Asvlani Soceri, 1522, 8vo. (1462), Oct. 6, Anderson Galleries $5 Seneca (L. A.) Opera Philosophica. Epistolæ, etc., roman letter, 216 ll., the last a blank (B. M.V. 464), some small wormholes, hf. cf. (binding broken), Venice, Bernardinus de Choris de Cremona, 5 Oct., 1490, folio (198), May 4, Sotheby Leighton, £7

[See also Anderson Galleries, Oct. 6, ed. 1652, $6.] Seneca (L. A.) [Opera Moralia), gothic letter, 214 ll. (including 2 blanks), [Hain-Copinger *14591], initials by hand in red and blue, MS. notes in an old hand, a few letters affected by wormholes, contemp. stamped pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps, Impressum Taruisii per Bernardum de Colonia, 1478, folio (65), Nov. 3, Sotheby [See also Feb. 2, ed. 1605, £6.] Tregaskis, £9 158. Seneca (L. A.) The Myrrour or Glasse of Maners and wysedome... translated by Robert Whyttynton, the first 8 11. only [W. Middleton, 1547] Remedies agaynst all casuall chaunces, last 12 11. only (including colophon],

London, W. Middleton, 1547, in I vol., cf., Heber copy (VIII. 2532), 8vo. (673), Mar. 30, Sotheby Rosenbach, £10

[These two portions of translations from Seneca, both by Whittington, both printed by Middleton in the same year and in the same roman and gothic types, were probably originally bound up in their present mixed condition, the confusion being caused by their identical appearance.] Seneca (L. A.) The woorke of... Lucius Annæus Seneca concerning Benefyting, that is too say the dooing, receyuing, and requyting of good Turnes, translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding, black letter, first ed. (* 3 wants * 4, ? a blank; A-Gg 4), head-lines and marginal notes of several ll. shaved, hf. red roan, Chalmers copy with bookplate, ¶ Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, 1578, 4to. (674), Mar. 30, Sotheby

Rosenbach, £38

[See also Feb. 23, ed. 1614, £4 10s.; Mar. 23, ed. 1620, £5.] Seneca (L. A. and M. A.) Opera, 3 vol., engraved title, fullpage bust of Seneca and engraving of him dying in his bath, note on fly-leaf "exemplaire grand le marges, 132 mill. de Mr. J. Ch. Brunet," book-label of J. Renard inside cover, old red mor., 3-line fillet in gold round sides, panel made with the same fillet with corner fleurons, gt. panelled back, g.e., probably by Jean le Vasseur, one of the Royal binders, 1640, 8vo. (380), Dec. 8, Sotheby

Halliday, £2 5s. Senex (J.) A New General Atlas, plates of arms and maps, (col. in outline), a few ll. stained, contemp. rough cf., 1721, folio (133), Dec. 18, Sotheby Maggs, 3 IOS. Serio (Sebastiano). Libri cinque d'Architectura, numerous woodcuts in the text, contemp. olive mor., a 2-line fillet round edges of sides enclosing a framework of rich renaissance ornament, a small badge of Count Hoym within a delicate frame of curved lines ending in azured floral tools and graceful ornaments, the back covered with a continuous delicate design of curved tools and formal foliage amidst which are 2 fleurs-de-lis, skilfully repaired enclosed in a mor. drop-case, lettered, sold as a binding, Venice, Nicolini da Sabio, 1559, folio (1191), Dec. 8, Sotheby Maggs, £60

[See also Feb. 23, vell., frayed, £4.] Serre (J. Puget, Sieur de la). The Mirrour which flatters not, transcrib'd English from the French by T. C.a[ry], frontispiece, with the leaf of Explanation, and copperplates, old sheep, with autograph of T. Willughby on engraved title, 1639, 8vo. (621), June 15, Christie Pickering, £4 10s. Service Book. Roque Bernardo Loayssa del Arco. Escriptor de Libros lo escriuio este Ano de 1703," musical MS. in red and black on 144 ll. of vellum, 224in. by 16in., square 5-line notation, many characteristic painted

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capitals, and a few full-page borders in col., orig. blindstamped leather over thick wooden boards, with metal corners and bosses, the clasps, a corner-piece and upper fittings for clasps missing, and binding worn, sold as a binding, Spanish, 1703, folio (488), April 6, Sotheby Solomon, £10 [Serviez (J. R. de).] The Roman Empresses, 2 vol., buckram, The Walpole Press, 1899, 8vo. (148), June 29, Sotheby Young, £1 15s. Seton (G.) A History of the Family of Seton, illustrations, including many illuminated coats-of-arms on India paper, 2 vol., No. 53 of 212 copies, green cl., mor. backs gt., t.e.g., from the library of T. Dawson Brodie, Edinburgh, privately printed, 1896, 4to. (600), Nov. 10, Sotheby

Hopkins, £3 5s. Settle (Elkanah). Augusta Lacrimans, a Funeral Poem to the Memory of the Honoured John Seale, cf., 1714, sm. folio (569), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £10 Settle (Elkanah). Carmen İrenicum: The Happy Union of the Two East-India Companies, cf., 1702, sm. folio (560), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £9

[See also Lot 562, ed. 1707, £11 10s.; Lot 563, £4.] Settle (E.) Eusebia Triumphans. The Hanover Succession to the Imperial Crown of England, an Heroic Poem, black mor., bound by the author for presentation, coat-ofarms in gold on sides, quarterly, a lion rampant in all four quarters, above are two angels blowing trumpets and holding aloft a royal crown, London, 1702, folio (150), Mar. 17, Sotheby Leighton, £3 15s. Mar. 23, £5 10s.;

[See also Feb. 2, ed. 1704, £3 15s.; Mar. 23, ed. 1709, £6 10s.; Feb. 2, ed. 1715, £4 15s.; Mar. 23, £8; July 20, £4 10S.] Settle (E.) Honori Sacellum, a Funeral Poem to the Memory of the Right Honourable Robert Ld. Tamworth, black mor,. an elaborate example, 1714, sm. folio (570), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £16 Settle (E.) On the Happy Inauguration of the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Bedingfield, Knt., Lord Mayor of the City of London, a Congratulatory Poem, MS. written within illuminated borders on 9 folio pp., contemp. red mor., the sides elaborately panelled in gold, with arms in the centres, 1706, folio (293), Nov. 3, Sotheby Dobell, £15 Settle (E.) A Pindaric Poem, on the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, mor., bookplate of the Earl of Shelburne, 1711, sm. folio (565), Mar. 23, Sotheby

[See also Lot 566, £12; Lot 567, £12.] Rosenbach, £12 Settle (E.) Rebellion Display'd, or Our Present Distractions Set Forth in their True Light, red mor., 1715, sm. folio (573), Mar. 23, Sotheby Rosenbach, £10 Settle (E.) Threnodia Apollinaris, a Funeral Poem to the Memory of the Right Honourable Charles E., of Hallifax, black mor., 1715, sm. folio (572), Mar. 23, Sotheby

(793)

Rosenbach, £10

Settle (E.) Threnodia Britannica, a Funeral Poem to the Memory of . . . Anne, Queen of Great Britain, black mor., 1714, sm. folio (568), Mar. 23, Sotheby Maggs, £14 [See also Lot 574, ed. 1722, 10; Lot 575, £8.] Settle (E.) Cambyses, King of Persia, a Tragedy (a letter of title cut into), 1675-The Empress of Morocco, a Tragedy, first ed., plates, 1673-Love and Revenge, a Tragedy, first ed. (last 2 11. slightly defective), 1675-The Conquest of China, a Tragedy, first ed., 1676-[Dryden (John)] Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco, first ed., 1674-[Settle.] Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco Revised, 1674, in vol., signature of Narcissus Luttrell on fly-leaf and list of contents in his handwriting, also bookplate of J. Bindley (Heber vIII. 2352), sm. 4to. (559), Mar. 23, Sotheby Dobell, £21 Seven Wise Masters. Greene (Thomas). The Hystorie of the Seuen Wise Maisters of Rome, now newlye corrected with a pleasaunt stile, and purged from all old and rude words and phrases, which were very loathsome and tedious to the Reader, black letter, with crude woodcut of Lucrezia Borgia on reverse of last leaf (lower margin of title and 2 11. at beginning and end defective), Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote dwelling within the new Rents in Saint Nicholas Shambles, 1602, 8vo. (259), June 15, Christie Quaritch, £29 [See also Sotheby, Mar. 17, ed. 1763, £3 3s.] Sévigné (Marie de Rabutin, Marchioness de), Lettres à sa Fille et à ses Amis, ports. and facsimile, 8 vol., contemp. green mor. (a little rubbed), g.e., 1806, 8vo. (454), Mar. 2, Sotheby Walford, £5 158.

[See also Hodgson, April 22, ed. 1811, 9 vol., £7 5s.; Nov. 26, ed. 1820, 10 vol., £3 7s. 6d.]

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Sévigné (Marie de), Lettres de, da sa Famille et des ses Amis, recueillies et annotées par M. Monmerque, 14 vol., with the Supplement to Vol. xii. and album of plates, 1862-68 -Lettres Inédites de Madame de Sévigné à Madame de Grignan, 2 vol., 1876-Babou (H.) Les Amoureux de Madame de Sévigné [1862]-Saporta (Marquis de). Famille de Madame de Sévigné en Provence, 1889, together 20 vol., LARGE PAPER, extended to 34 vol. (25 of which have specially-printed titles), and extra-illustrated (by Lady Abercromby, née Duncan) in 1893 by about 1,200 ports. and other engravings, some in rare and proof states, green levant mor., inside dentelles, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo. (241), Feb. 23, Sotheby Spurr, £100 [Sewall (W.)] Several Methods of Making Salt-Petre [for use in Gunpowder], recommended to the Inhabitants of the United Colonies, 6 11. (lower margins slightly cut into), Philadelphia, printed by W. & T. Bradford, 1775, sm. 8vo. (224), June 25, Hodgson Myers, £3 5s. Seyer (Samuel). Historical Memoirs of Bristol and Neigh

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